Chick box



May 21, 1929.

a. a. aomssae'a'a CHICK ox Filed Feb. 1'7, 1928 INVENTOR. GEORGE E. fionaszssz.

BY g g a z i r WAEORNEYQ Patented May 21, 1929.

UNITED STATES 1,714,295 PATENT OFFICE. I

.GEQRGE E. BOMBERGER. OF INDIANAPOLIS,\INDIANA, ASSIGNOR TO ANDERSON BOX COMPANY, OF INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA, A CORPORATION OF INDIANA.

CHICK BOX.

REISSUED Application filed February 17, 1928. Serial No. 254,933.

This invention relates to a ventilated chick box construction.

The chief object of this invention is to produce a chick box that is ventilated and which will readily stack but which will not prcvent air having access to a portion-of the cover so that ventilation can be obtained therethrough when the boxes are in stacked relation.

The chief 'feature of the invention consists in the formation of the cover in stepped or offset relation so as to provide, when the boxes are stacked, a ventilating channel or space between adjacent boxes. The box is also complementarity formed to accommodate, receive and support the stepped or offset cover.

A further feature of the invention consists in the reinforcing partitions provided for reinforcing the box and forming compartments therein. v

The full nature of the invention will. be understood from the accompanying drawings and the following description and claims. v I

In the drawings Fig. 1 is av perspective view of two boxes arranged in stacked relation, illustratingan air passage formed therebetween. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the box with the cover removed.

In the drawings there is illustrated a ship ping box of fibre board, or corrugated paper which embodies the invention and is suitable for shipping small live animals or birds and is of the class commonly called chick boxes.

Heretofore to prevent smothering of the birds or animals within'the box, spacing members in the form of strips-were added to the bottom or to the top or both of the box and thus, two adjacent boxes in stacked formation were provided with a passage or air space therebetween, by which air could enter the box through the several openings provided in the cover. Heretofore, such separation has been obtained by gluing or nailing wooden strips about one inch square in cross section across either end of each cover. -.-Such addition is expensive in that there is the cost of the spacing strips, the cost of attaching same to the box and the postage cost, by reason of the increased weight. Also variations of the weight. of the strips necessitate individual weighing of each box to apply the proper postage.

The present invention eliminates this necessity. The box includes a bottom; a pair of side walls 11 and a pair of end walls 12, all being continuations of the bottom and formed from a blank by suitably cutting, scoring and bending into the position as shown in Fig. 2. Each of the end walls 12 extends above and projects upwardly beyond the plane ofthe side walls 11 and the lateral extensions 13 tion at the center and each including l.at--

eral extensions 21 for anchorage as at 122 to the adjacent side or end wall. The height of the partitions 18 and 19 is substantially that of the side wall.

The cover is complementarily formed and includes a main and intermediate body portion 22 apertured as at 23; Extending upwardly therefrom are the offset portions 24, connected to which, are the end portions 25 of said top. Depending at each end from the top portions 25 are the end edges 26 and depending from the side portions of the top portions 25 are the portions 27, same being secured together as at 28, the partial side edge 27 including a lateral extension or flap 29 adapted to lie adjacent the end edge member 26. Median portion 22 of the top includes a side edge 30 which is extended as at 31 beyond said top port-ion towards the ends and the extension 31 is substantially equal in length to the width of the offset 24 and the remainder of the stock constitutes the side edge portions 27 the parting being made at 28. The length of the extension 29 issubstantially that of the width of the end edge 26 so that a substantially square blank can be utilized and after being cut and scored the parts are secured together in cover form as at 28 in the corners and as at 32 intermediate the ends which maintain said'cover in the offset of channelled relation.

By reason of the foregoing construction the box and the cover can be formed from substantially rectangular blanks without any wastage and ventilating perforations can be formed therein in a well known manner.

dition found in the first form that the elevated portion include not less than half the total area of the box.

The invention claimed is: 1. A shi ping box comprising a box bot-- 'tom and a. ox top, said top including an offset portion and the bottom including a similar portion for registration therewith to form a ventilation passage when said box is firranged in stacked relation with another ox. 2. A shipping box top including an intermediate portion, a pair of ofiset portions secured thereto at opposite sides,'a pair of end portions each secured to an ofiset portion I and parallel to the intermediate portion, and

edge portions extending angularly of the end and intermediate ortions and secured together in overlapping relationship adjacent the offset portions.

- 3. shipping box top of the character desimilarly arranged and terminating at a greater distance from the bottom than the sides, and flaps having the same depth as the ends and constituting extensions thereof and arranged to lie parallel and be secured to the sides and project above the same, said flap terminations being in spaced relation for forming a notch in the completed side wall of the box.

5. An article as defined by claim 4, characterized by the length of the flap being equal in length to the width of the side wall Whereby the blank is substantially quadrilateral and forms the box without wastage.

In witness whereof, I have hereunto affixed my signature.

GEORGE E. BOMBERGER. 

